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Dedicated to providing high-impact technical leadership to teams that share a deep respect for the individual, a commitment to community responsibility, and an ambition to make technical contributions for the advancement and welfare of humanity.
SUMMARY: More than a decade studying the unique social, legal, and technical problems that arise when managing and disseminating information in the digital environment. Principal investigator on a series of research projects at Hewlett-Packard Labs focusing on policy-based management and personalization of distributed, heterogeneous digital object repositories, content processing architectures and collaboration systems. Before joining HP Labs, was the architect for Copyright Direct™, the first real-time, Internet-based service to fully automate the complex copyright permissions process for a variety of media types, and LicensIt/@ttribute, the first digital rights management (DRM) technology to facilitate dialog between content creators and users through the dynamic exchange of metadata.
Hands-on individual contributor, systems architect, project leader, and entrepreneur, with more than a decade of experience creating novel Internet technologies and generating real business value.